umbellate inflorescence, and a powerful garlic-like odour, 

 but in hardly any other respect more than Ornithogalum, 

 and the other genera of the Liliaceous order. The charac- 

 ters assigned to it are amply sufficient to fix it as a most 

 distinct and remarkable genus. 



Gussone inquires whether A. Dioscoridis may not be the 

 same species ; a question that I believe there is no present 

 means of answering. 



It is a hardy species, my drawing of w^hich was made 

 from a plant in the Garden of the Society of Apothecaries at 

 Chelsea, in June last. It produces seeds, by which the cura- 

 tor, Mr. Anderson, will, I presume, be able to increase it. 



In the accompanying dissections, 1. represents an ovary 

 surrounded by stamens, the calyx and corolla having been 

 cut away ; 2. is a section of the ovary indicating the position 

 of the ovules ; 3. is a ripe fruit invested by the permanent 

 calyx and corolla ; 4. is a capsule wdth its valves opening ; 

 5. is a seed. 



